PhunkyPhazon said:
I mean I know coffee is supposed to be bitter, but DAMN! That was like the only word I could possibly use to describe it. I'm certainly never trying that particular idea again. Obviously I need to add something or start with a different kind of blend. What do you guys recommend? What's a good starting point?
Jonluw said:
I drink my coffee black and strong.
Like a man.
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But if you really don't like coffee, use milk and/or sugar.
Even back when I didn't like coffee, a cup with 5 teaspoons of sugar was awesome.
Oh my, you really are bias to the pure black coffee aren't you
Well that is matter of taste. I'll give my biased opinion now
THIS IS JUST HOW I SEE AND DRINK COFFEE before someone starts to flame, "your wrong whaa whaa"
Well, it seems accordingly to Jonluw, I am just a shadow of a man. I drink my coffee with plain milk. And with lots of it (around 1 milk to 3 coffee). I have never gotten used to that extreme bitter. And for beginners I would recommend milk or even cream with coffee. One reason for me doing this is also, that I don't get basicly any other calsium than from my coffee milk.
I don't know, but from experience I could guess that cream reduces the bitterness of coffee like 2-3 times more that same amount of milk, but cream also removes something else... I don't know what. Perhaps the high grease content of the cream...
I have been making my own coffee, even from unbrewed coffee, for long time. I would highly recommend you to try that or otherwise get to know home made coffee. It is because, I mostly find that ready made coffee is sometimes just.. bad... or at least not so good... I don't know if it the actual process or the fact that they use some powder milk or just that the water coffee ratios are not to my liking.. or the process (high pressures and high temperatures). Also, some coffee shops has the pot heating there for like the whole day and the coffee tastes more like charcoal than coffee. Anyways, for real tasting of coffee, please reach someone who makes their own coffee. And it is really safe bet to start tasting from cream or milk blends.
If you actually have taste nerves, like you seem to have, because you said that coffee is extreme bitter, you can even do this for actually being able to taste the coffee: starbucks black and milk (cream removes bitterness faster but it also softens the coffee's taste in overall which milk hardly does) from around the corner shop. Then just pour a bit of your coffee off, or to another cup, and add milk to your liking. Somewhere there you actually start to taste the coffee from the extreme bitter
If you think, you can try sugar, like Jonluw above, but that does not remove the bitter that well and it distorts the taste of the coffee (for me atleast). Sugar just converts the bitter to sweet, which is not good, if you like to taste the coffee. Not the extreme mixture of sugar and bitter. You can have something nice along with the coffee and baked sweets might do the trick in start, but make those sweets as plain as possible. No fancy dressings and cola flavored, or whatever, flakes on top of those. And if you don't want to try bakery stuff alongside, the safest bet for 'normal candy' is plain chocolate, which gets along with coffee really well.
These are just what I feel like, being a daily coffee drinker for... well only around 5 years now. No actual knowledge then
But anyways. Hopefully helps.
